Mario Orozco Rivera

When asked about his famous last names, he used to state “(José Clemente) Orozco is my dad and (Diego) Rivera is my mom!

[3] At age sixteen he went to Cuba but returned after the Batista coup to begin studying at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" in 1952.

[1][3] Most of Orozco Rivera’s career was dedicated to mural painting, on his own and working with David Alfaro Siqueiros.

[1] Orozco Rivera did easel work as well with his first individual exhibition at the El Círculo de Bellas Artes Gallery.

[2][3][4] Orozco Rivera’s works can be found in major museum collections in Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, the United States, the Czech Republic, Italy, England and China, in institutions such as the Casa de las Américas in Havana.

[5] In 1956 and 1957 Orozco Rivera won the acquisition prize of the Nuevos Valores event of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.

[3][5] Orozco Rivera was a student and apprentice to David Alfaro Siqueiros, a later proponent of the Mexican muralism movement, faithfully adhering to the aesthetics and ideology of social realism.